Chinese Proverb of the week

"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other."

Liens pour les nuls en Bio et additives

Deux liens que mon chair&tendre m'a fait parvenir. Probablement parce que dans nos conversations au sujet de la bonne - et mal-bouffe les mots "bio" et additive nr E-quelquechose tombent dans 1 phrase sur deux. Bref des liens utiles, pour une fois, qui peuvent faire plaisir aux chers lecteurs de ce blog (je crois ce ne sont que 3):

www.biopreferences.com

et

www.les-additifs-alimentaires.com

Chinese Proverb of the week

"When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them."

La rentrée: food of the other kind

It's "La rentrée" in France. That's adding a lot of fuzz to start the new school year and cultural season. And the time to pick-up where i left off. I gathered lots of material so that should cover regular posts!

Talking about culture and food: Here's Grace Jones with a new album (okay maybe not that new I lag a bit behind!) for which they made for the cover a chocolate Grace, yummy!
see the photos on this website: english.mashkulture.net

And here's the clip Corporate Cannibal (It's food Jim, but not as we know it!)

It's a long hot summer

3 months and counting of around 30° it's getting me beyond the limits of what a normal person can handle. the good news is that the tomatoes are growing nicely, the courgette plants have lots of flowers (i should have got a bunch of them to fry instead of waiting for the courgettes to grow...)
And other nice summer simple yet satisfying culinary pleasures.

Not from my garden, but a fine selection of ancient species tomatoes :


... and then chopped up with an onion olive oil and vinegar aka tomato salad:


A summer must to keep cool:


Italian courgette from the Gers